Every day, millions of people play Wordle, the popular New York Times game that challenges users to guess a secret five-letter word. Using information theory, a team of researchers at Binghamton ...

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

Researchers developed a Wordle-solving strategy that succeeds 99% of the time by focusing on information gain rather than likely answers. The method uses Shannon entropy to identify guesses that ...

A math whiz as a young man, he later blazed trails, both with his theoretical advances and his advocacy for minority students ...